Crash when trying to run N64 on Linux without Vulkan support

[risingPhil]

Describe the bug
I'm trying to run Ares on my Kubuntu 18.04 installation. I built using make -j 12 && make install.

I have an Nvidia Quadro P1000 with binary driver 530.41.03 and I don't have Vulkan support as far as I know.

Yet the application crashes on vulkan stuff when trying to launch a rom, even though OpenGL 3.2 is selected as my video driver in the Ares settings:

To Reproduce
I can reproduce this on both Ares v138 and v139.

• Launch Ares
• Launch an N64 rom through Load -> Nintendo -> Nintendo 64
  => Crash

** Expected behaviour **
No crash

** Additional Info **
Backtrace grabbed with GDB:

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Reading symbols from ./ares...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /home/philippe/.local/bin/ares 
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
[New Thread 0x7fffe7b6b700 (LWP 11544)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe736a700 (LWP 11545)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe62ea700 (LWP 11575)]
OpenGL: Failed to load librashader: shaders will be disabled
[New Thread 0x7fffc2d25700 (LWP 11578)]
[New Thread 0x7fffb9754700 (LWP 11580)]
[New Thread 0x7fffb8f53700 (LWP 11582)]
[New Thread 0x7fffabfff700 (LWP 11584)]
[New Thread 0x7fffab171700 (LWP 11585)]

Thread 1 "ares" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x0000000000000000 in  ()
#1  0x0000555555a12caf in Vulkan::Device::init_workarounds() ()
#2  0x0000555555a4c632 in Vulkan::Device::set_context(Vulkan::Context const&) ()
#3  0x0000555555ee985c in ares::Nintendo64::Vulkan::Implementation::Implementation(unsigned char*, unsigned int) ()
#4  0x0000555555ee9aa2 in ares::Nintendo64::Vulkan::load(nall::shared_pointer<ares::Core::Object>) ()
#5  0x00005555559c2133 in ares::Nintendo64::System::load(nall::shared_pointer<ares::Core::System>&, nall::string) ()
#6  0x00005555559f8334 in ares::Nintendo64::load(nall::shared_pointer<ares::Core::System>&, nall::string) ()
#7  0x0000555555c83960 in Nintendo64::load() ()
#8  0x0000555555c4e5a6 in Emulator::load(nall::string const&) ()
#9  0x0000555555c69ce0 in Program::load(nall::string) ()
#10 0x0000555555c6a38e in Program::load(nall::shared_pointer<Emulator>, nall::string) ()
#11 0x0000555555dc768f in Presentation::loadEmulators()::{lambda()#1}::operator()() const ()
#12 0x00007ffff52c60bd in g_closure_invoke () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#13 0x00007ffff52d900e in  () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#14 0x00007ffff52e16f5 in g_signal_emit_valist () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#15 0x00007ffff52e210f in g_signal_emit () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#16 0x00007ffff63269d6 in gtk_widget_activate () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0
#17 0x00007ffff61f8f76 in gtk_menu_shell_activate_item () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0
#18 0x00007ffff61f91f2 in  () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0
#19 0x00007ffff61dc8f7 in  () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0
#20 0x00007ffff52c62f6 in  () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#21 0x00007ffff52e13ad in g_signal_emit_valist () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#22 0x00007ffff52e210f in g_signal_emit () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#23 0x00007ffff6324534 in  () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0
#24 0x00007ffff61d986e in  () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0
#25 0x00007ffff61db948 in gtk_main_do_event () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0
#26 0x00007ffff5cec765 in  () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk-3.so.0
#27 0x00007ffff5d1cf92 in  () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk-3.so.0
#28 0x00007ffff4feb537 in g_main_context_dispatch () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#29 0x00007ffff4feb770 in  () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#30 0x00007ffff4feb7fc in g_main_context_iteration () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#31 0x00007ffff61dab01 in gtk_main_iteration_do () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0
#32 0x000055555584e8fc in hiro::pApplication::processEvents() ()
#33 0x000055555584ea86 in hiro::pApplication::run() ()
#34 0x00005555557634a3 in nall::main(nall::Arguments) ()
#35 0x0000555555717253 in nall::main(int, char**) ()
#36 0x00007ffff7a03c87 in __libc_start_main (main=
    0x5555557177b0 <main>, argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffdd18, init=<optimized out>, fini=<optimized out>, rtld_fini=<optimized out>, stack_end=0x7fffffffdd08) at ../csu/libc-start.c:310
#37 0x000055555578878a in _start ()

I have a core file here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qBeocEhnVOvfNjmzlo0_QEOfcrK0nvtz/view?usp=sharing

[LukeUsher]

A crash is rather odd, but Vulkan is required for N64 emulation and it will not work without it; the expected behavior is that you'd have missing or broken video output.

[risingPhil]

I just saw this though:

source: https://ares-emu.net/news/ares-v127--released

Also: I think I may have read somewhere before that Vulkan may be required, but I can't find it anywhere on the website when I actually try to look for it.

I don't know. In any case a crash is unexpected indeed.

I can run the emulator perfectly when I switch to Windows though. But I suspect the nvidia driver there DOES have Vulkan support (although I haven't bothered to verify that yet)

[remutro]

MAME RDP support was discontinued in newer releases and is no longer available. You can't use the N64 core without Vulkan support as it is required by parallel-rdp.

The video options in Settings > Drivers are strictly for putting game images on the screen and don't impact cores directly.

[risingPhil]

allright.

So it appears the only real bug here is that it crashes instead of showing some kind of error notification.

I don't know if anyone is inclined to fix this or not. It's up to you whether to close this ticket or not. I can imagine this to be low priority if you decide to fix it.

Anyway, thanks for responding so quickly.